This week a very large asteroid officially described as “potentially hazardous” will come very close to Earth. Chances are it will miss us, but we can’t be totally certain until it actually does. And ...
When it comes to slamming space probes into comets, astronomers — like Boy Scouts — prefer to be prepared. As part of that preparation, a team of researchers has been using a giant gun to hurl ...
After nine years of interstellar investigations, the mission of NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft has come to an end. In a press release issued today, the agency “reluctantly pronounced” that they had ...
Completing nearly a decade of comet exploration, NASA's Deep Impact mission was the most-traveled deep-space comet hunter of its time. The spacecraft visited two comets and captured images of two more ...
Two decades ago, mankind was nearly destroyed by a giant space rock. Twice. The year was 1998, the films were Mimi Leder’s Deep Impact and Michael Bay’s Armageddon, and it still seems weird after all ...
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Perhaps unusual for a big-budget sci-fi flick, Dr. Chapman strongly approved of the film’s science, and both he and Y — an environmental activist and artist who donates to the B612 Foundation — said ...
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